From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Mar 12 0:41:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp24.singnet.com.sg (smtp24.singnet.com.sg [165.21.101.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAA537B402 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 00:41:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from ajax (bb-203-125-253-168.singnet.com.sg [203.125.253.168]) by smtp24.singnet.com.sg (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g2C8fIYD032460 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:41:18 +0800 Message-ID: <000a01c1c9a2$26e7e0a0$a8fd7dcb@ajax> From: "Happy" To: Subject: Video Card Problem Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:44:41 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1C9E5.34CF9E40" X-Priority: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1C9E5.34CF9E40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I am a new user of FreeBSD. I just finished intalling FreeBSD 4.0 on = my system. However, there seems to be a video card compatibility = problem. When i booted into the K desktop,there are icons displayed but = the captions cannot be seen. This goes the same for the windows and = menus where icons are visible but with illegable captions.Hence the GUI = is unusable. =20 I have a S3 trio 32/64 PCI (732/764) video card. During = installation,when i wanted to configer the X server,this msg appeared = when i clicked on the S3 trio 64 option on the list. It said: =20 =20 "The server required by the card is not installed. Pls abort,install = the S3 server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 and run this program again." I = have tried typing this at command line interface but to no avail. Can you please advice on how to install the S3 server or are there = other methods to overcome this problem? Thanks! = Yours faithfully, = A new user ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C1C9E5.34CF9E40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

I am a new user of FreeBSD. I = just finished=20 intalling FreeBSD 4.0 on my system. However, there seems to be a video = card=20 compatibility problem. When i booted into the K desktop,there are icons=20 displayed but the captions cannot be seen. This goes the same for the = windows=20 and menus where icons are visible but with illegable captions.Hence the = GUI is=20 unusable.

I have a S3 trio 32/64 PCI = (732/764) video=20 card. During installation,when i wanted to configer the X server,this = msg=20 appeared when i clicked on the S3 trio 64 option on the list. It=20 said:

"The server required by the card = is not=20 installed. Pls abort,install the S3 server as /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3 and = run=20 this program again." I have tried typing this at command line interface = but to=20 no avail.

Can you please advice on how to = install the=20 S3 server or are there other methods to overcome this problem?=20 Thanks!

= =20 = =20 = =20 = =20 = =20 = =20 Yours faithfully,

&nbs= p; = ; = &= nbsp; &n= bsp; &nb= sp; &nbs= p; A=20 new user

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